“The 1951 accord essentially gave the United States the right to build bases across Greenland, and at the height of the Cold War there were more than a dozen.”

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“It looks a good deal like the security agreement that the United States had with Greenland right after World War II, and doesn’t appear to come very close to matching the rhetoric that President Trump attached to the whole effort.”

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“The 1951 deal, titled the Defense of Greenland Agreement, was signed two years after both the U.S. and Denmark joined NATO as founding members. It provides the basis for Washington’s military operations and presence in the Arctic territory.”

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“Now, both sides are cautiously optimistic about the new agreement, though its outcomes do not seem fundamentally different than what could have already been accomplished under the existing 1951 Defense of Greenland Treaty.”

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“Since 1951, the U.S. military presence in Greenland has been governed by the Greenland Defense Agreement, a short but sweeping pact that grants the U.S. military basing and access rights across the territory for an indefinite period of time.”

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